SOSC 1502 Chapter Notes -Judith Butler, Prenatal Care, Examined Life
12 Mar 2014
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Week 8: wednesday february 26 disability, accessibility and embodiment. Pemina yellow bird, wild indians: native perspectives on the hiawatha asylum for insane. Native people are the intergenerational survivors of a holocaust. Nations reduced by european diseases, warfare and other genocidal practices of the federal government. Newcomers seemed greedy and barbaric, savages who did not respect life, us or regard aboriginals as human. Superior numbers and weapons combined with utter lack of conscience and a uneuqnchable greed made formidable killers of native people. Native people are the intergenerational survivors of the holocaust. Highest rates of suicice, infant mortality, lowest life expectancy. Must tell the stories of loss, violation, what happened to us, long last grieve through things, determine how the past informs us. Must speak the truth about the holocaust so can stop indians for something blaming us government is solely responsible for. Us violence in the name of democracy and god.
